Nov 26 2002 @ Doornroosje Nijmegen, NL

I've just come in from Nijmegen, drove through the thickest fog I've seen for a while. I hope everyone made it home in one piece, especially Sarah, Norwood and Dion, since where they are going there aren't too many trees to block some of the fog.

On to the show.

This has been the show with the best audience responce I've seen in years. After the first encore Wet Daddy walked up to the mike only to be greeted by such a racket that he wasn't able to say anything for about half a minute. They loved it, and I did too.

I met Sarah (all too briefly...), Ase wasn't there, and she fears she can't make it to the Amsterdam show, as she doesn't want to bring Ase into the smoky dutch clubs. I can understand that to some extent. Unfortunately, not too many of my friends have children, so I don't know a babysitter. We'll see.

They started extremely energetic (although Angelo, who indeed used his walking cane like crutches, mentioned that he was very tired and would go on autopilot again) with some of the coolest tracks...

here's the setlist, as written on it:

XQZ ME (actually, it was a piece that's probably called "Plexiglass", about a plexiglass wall he build around him as selfprotection. About the same time that the band started playing he did a piece I hadn't heard him do before, consisting of simply repeating the phrase "testing, 1, 2". NUTTMEG WERLD BEHAVIOUR oh yes.. they opened with the control technician.. DEEP INSIDE RIOT how is that for an opening trio of songs? SKANKIN TO THE BEAT JUST ALLOW SKANK AND GO NUTTZ DATE WIT IT EVERYDAY SUNSHINE different from the last tour, this version was less funk, closer to the original KARMA MA & PA UGLY PREMADAWNUTT CHIM CHIM SUNLESS SATURDAY SEVITUDE complete with members walking off one by one first encore: PANTS they used Weed Plant lyrics PARTY not played, instead they played alcoholic, after some debate/joking around second encore: ALCOHOLIC played in the first encore :) DEMON/RED HOt demon wasn't played, instead they made us chant "Fishbone, we're gonna fuck shit up" over a basslick that was a weird 7/8 timesignature... I can't place what it was, but it was funky as hell. They never played it out into a song and simply at one point went into Red Hot.

what else...

I gave 2 SVCD's to the band, one from me and one from Denis, both with the same content: the Skank video and the HenHouse tracks. Why SVCD? It can be played in a dvd player! And they had a dvd player on the bus. They've seen it now, they like it as well, as Angelo mentioned. Denis, I did mention the idea and CD came from you, but I don't think the message came through...

Some short tidbits: -Norwood almost didn't make it on time in Rotterdam, as he had to travel from Enschede. The same happened in Nijmegen and they didn't have a decent towel, so he performed with some shorts on. -I don't often see Norwood break bass strings. Tonight, he broke 4. He needs to get a string endorsement. -Solid Rocket Boosters (hi Slip!) were a lot more energetic then in Haarlem. Much fun! I still think the bass player looks like he's from a different band. It didn't look like he had fun...

About the crowd... Nijmegen is a student town, so there were quite a few stoners/hippies. Some of the girls were up front, but with a twist, as a few were very happy singing along to GAMAB and CCBAR songs. Not the new ones, we need distribution in Europe!

that's about it for now. I'm falling over, but I need to get up in a few hours as the parking is so bad I had to park in a place where it will be towed away after 8am, there should be a space available then.

off to be, good night y'all.

A

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Sorry Joop, first my account on the Nijmegen gig if that's allright.... Well, that was for me the best show of FB I saw from the euro tour. Allthough Angelo was indeed a little on auto-pilot, they were having a damn good time on stage and shared a lot of laughs and fun together. First things first, we arrived at 6 or something with our bus and saw the FB-bus, but then again a lot of police and am...

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